philipchevron wrote:AndrewOG wrote:Speaking of which, are there any serious musicians that use a recorder? Because I'm not sure that anyone here in the U.S. takes the recorder seriously.
Not that I would necessarily accept the designation "serious musician", but in one of my own teenage bands, Aisling, I experimented with using a recorder where, more usually, one might expect to hear a tin whistle. It worked but rarely. The whistle has a shrill persistence the recorder lacks.
Tony Visconti, Brooklyn-born musician (David Bowie's pre-Spiders band The Hype) and producer (Bowie, Bolan, Radiators, Thin Lizzy, Morrissey etc) made himself something of a recorder specialist in late 1960s London when he was orchestrating records for Denny Cordell's stable and others. There is even some recorder on Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World (1971).
All the Madmen, right? Never even occurred to me.
(If I'm wrong here, my defense is that I have no musical skill to speak of ).
When I think of recorder, I automatically think of a group of 50 schoolchildren in an auditorium. In other words, god awful.
